Vascular surgery, issues in current practice

Anesthesia Issues in Cardiac Surgery

The principle of anaesthesia for open-heart surgery is based on simplicity, safty and light­plane of anaesthesia. As a result of the special pathophysiology, grave general status, compli­cations threatening these patients during and after the operation and the abundance of medicines available nowadays, it is very important for the anaesthetist to be acquainted with the pathophysiological and ph...

Vascular surgery in Pakistan: critical issues.

Limb-salvage angioplasty in vascular surgery practice.

OBJECTIVE To assess outcomes of percutaneous infrainguinal arterial angioplasty for treatment of chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CLI) in poor surgical candidates. METHODS A retrospective clinical analysis of 67 consecutively treated patients (76 limbs) with CLI over a 33-month period was performed. Patients were considered poor surgical candidates because of absent distal target vessels (3...

Applications of Cell Therapy in Vascular Surgery

Trying to use embryonic stem cells about 20 years ago, working with animals,  especially rats began. During these years , many experiments in mouse embryonic stem cells to transform into a variety of cells and transplanting them were led to remarkable success . In the next issue of human stem cells were considered successful until finally in 1998 the first report was published in the proliferat...

I-22: Ethical Issues in Everyday Infertility Practice

Background: Infertility is a speciality that has attracted considerable attention, focussing mainly on ’controversial’ issues (such as saviour siblings) and national policy. Whereas, relatively little is known about how infertility clinicians approach ethical decisions in their everyday practice. This study aims to develop a deeper understanding of this by examining how infertility clinicians c...